Track liner



Feb. 2 1926. I 1,571,920

J. CLARK TRACK LINER Filed August 6, 1925 Patented Feb. 2, 1926.

UNITED STATES JOHN CLARK, OF WALKERTON, INDIANA.

TRACK LINER.

Application filed August 6,1925. Serial No. 48,599.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Valkerton, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Track L1ners, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to track liners or acks.

An object of the invention is to provide an instrument for adjusting a rail laterally.

Another object of the invention is toprovide a device which can be operated to accomplish the lifting and proper positioning of the track rail with a minimum of labor and effort.

Still another object is to provide a device for this purpose which shall have a movable foot, by which shifting of the rail will be facilitated, and which will eliminate the necessity of providing prongs or other means on the base plate to prevent its slipping on the ballast and sliding out from under the rail.

A further object of the invention is to provide such a device which has a lifting railengaging lever which has its forward end associated with a fixed pivot.

A still further object of the invention is .to provide a fixed pivot for the forward end of the rail-engaging and lifting lever, in combination with a frame member or support for said pivot, the support or frame member being fixed and of wedge-shaped formation for the purpose of assisting in placing the liner in operation.

Other and further objects of the invention, including the provision of a device which is an improvement on my two prior patents for track liners, No. 1,513,724, dated October 28, 1924, and No. 1,515,928, dated November 18, 1924, will appear from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, which illustrate, by way of example, a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The invention includes a bed plate, an operating lever provided with a slidable foot engaging said bed plate, and having pivoted to it intermediate its ends a rail-engaging and lifting lever which has its forward and lower end pivoted, said pivot being in fixed relation with said bed plate.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is a side elevation showing the operating and lifting levers partly raised;

Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the device shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the rail lifting lever and operating lever in lowered position;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation partly broken away and partly in section, on an enlarged scale, showing the movable foot of the operating lever slidably associated with the base plate.

Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of a modi- .fied form wedge member.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the reference numeral 11 indicates a base or bed plate which is provided at one end with foot guiding and retaining members 12 and 13, which, in the form herein illustrated, are shown as being flat metallic plates secured by bolts 14 or other suitable means to the base plate and arranged to overlap and guide the movable foot 16 of the operating lever. Stop bolts 17 may be provided at the limits of the forward and rearward movement of the sliding foot 16 in order to limit it in its extreme positions.

The slidable foot 16 is pivoted by a bolt 19 or other suitable means to the lower end of the operating lever 20, which is herein shown as having its upper end 21 formed as a socket for the reception of a lifting bar 23, which may be inserted in the socket for the purpose of providing a longer handle and thus increasing the effective lever length.

Pivotally associated with the operating lever is one end of a rail-engaging lever 18, which is herein shown as consisting of two spaced rail-engaging plates pivoted to the operating lever 20 by a through bolt 24 or other suitable means.

The forward and lower ends of the rail-engaging plates f-orming the rail lifting lever are pivotally associated with the base plate by a pivot bolt 26 or other suitable means fixedly associated with said base plate preferably by means of an integral wedgeshaped member 27, through which said piv- 0t bolt 26 passes. The wedge-shaped member 27 may be made separately as shown in Fig. 5, and may be secured to said base plate in fixed position by means of securing bolts 30, or by rivets or any other suitable means operable to secure said pivot bolt 26 111 fixed relation withsaid base plate.

In operation, the device is advanced to the ail to be 'aised and is shoved under the ail, the operating love .20 then being aised to hit one end of the trackengaging lever 1E5, therebv 'ausing it to engage with and lift the rail to be moved. As the operating lever it) is raised, the sliding foot 16, which occupied a tor- Ward position on the base plate when the operating lever was in lowered position, elidee on the base plate moving riai'wai'tlly during: the ilting operation. The forward and lower end of the tail-engaging level, howei'ci', though it turns about the pivot bolt ltl. remains in liked relation to the ban-2e plate and moves neither forwardly 1101 rem- \Ytll't'll) thereon. When the ail has been unwed, the iiieating lever is lowered. the lilted end (it the rail-engegging level being; lowered with it and the Sliding toot moving :lorwardly on the baee plate. The Wedgeshaped member 2i aide materially in laeiL itiatingz putting the liner in position for operation and its ell-gel end P611119 the h z 1 in; tor the pivot bolt 26.

What is claimed is:

l. )1 track lineif including a bate plate, an opeia'tii'ig lever, a movable toot for said operating lever longitudinally slidable on said base plate, said ope fil ing lever being pivotall aseociated with said movable toot, a track-engaging lGVGl pivoted to said operating lover, a pivot tor the forward end o'l eaid track-engaging lever, and ineane seen]:- ing; said pivot in lixed relation to said base plate, said ll'lftllii fixing); said pivot t'oi'eing said inm'able foot to slide longitudinally on said lllF-ZG plate upon any raising oi? loweirlug n'iovenient of said operating lever and t't)il!i !(f:lli'1l; all sliding; movement within laid i'Tu li liner to take place between Silltl mo able toot and Raid base plate.

ill tiack liner including: a 02150 plattn an operating); level. :1 movable 'loot 'l'ol' eaid t)llt-f:1l' 'f lever loiip itudinull, slidable said base plate, said operating lQVti being; pivoted to said movable toot, a lTl'21('i -L,llgz ata'ing levelpivoted to said opeifating lover, a pivot for the 'tioitmid end of said tlt clengaging lever, and means; including 1:. \l'tt'l ilje-Sllilpfll member to? securing Said pivot to said baee plate, said Wedge-shaped member, by i-reeui'iiig said pivot to said base plate, compelling all sliding; inovenieijit Within said track liner to take place lietween said movable toot and said bat-1e plate.

In testimony .i'heieo'i l atlix my signature.

JOHN 'oLiinK. 

